Survivin Philly
Survivin Philly

Author: Nate Jones

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1728351340

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Imagine living in the city where the biggest gang is the police who shoot first and never questions... where the females never turn down (turned down for what?). Imagine a place where your right hand man will more than likely stab you in the back, and the most gangsta [email protected] you though you knew is a rat. Imagine trying to raise your kids in a war zone where there’s no f*.kin laws. You on your own! brotherly love? I gues some strive. But Philly streets are do or die. Only the strong will SURVIVE!

Wicked Women
Wicked Women

Author: Fay Weldon

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1480412457

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Wicked Women brings together twenty tales that lay bare the minds and hearts of men, women, and children Victims, liberators, blackmailers, healers, and ghosts—they’re just a few of the fascinating men and women you’ll meet in this stellar, boundary-defying anthology. From a heartless lover to a therapist who’s exposed for being a child hater, Weldon’s characters search for meaning, betray their vows, take pleasure in others’ misfortunes, or get pushed out of the family manse by their grasping offspring. Whether she’s depicting a child’s reaction to the chaotic lives of her parents, or envisioning a terrifying futuristic society, Fay Weldon wields her prolific pen like a sword. In a pre-apocalyptic world where nothing is sacred, Wicked Women reveals the infinite ability of men and women to wound, to grieve, and to love.

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2012)
Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1476622000

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BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts. Prior to Volume 9, Black Ball was published as Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal. This is a back issue of that journal.

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6
Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6

Author: Leslie A. Heaphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-04-04

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1476614288

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BACK ISSUE Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts. Prior to Volume 9, Black Ball was published as Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal. This is a back issue of that journal.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2019 and 2021

Author: William M. Simons

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-05-02

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1476678383

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Selected from the two most recent proceedings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2019 and 2021), this collection of essays explores subject matter centered both inside and beyond the ballpark. Fifteen contributors offer critical commentary on a range of topics, including controversial decisions on the field and in Hall of Fame elections; baseball's historical role as a rite of passage for boys; two worthy catchers who never received their due; the genesis and development of the minor leagues; and baseball's place in popular culture.

The Memphis Red Sox
The Memphis Red Sox

Author: Keith B. Wood

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1476652279

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This book examines Memphis's symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the lens of the Memphis Red Sox, a black-owned and operated organization that stood as a pillar of success. Baseball also provides a way to examine the racial inequalities and issues that pervaded the city in those years. A black-owned stadium served as a forum for political assertion and an arena for real political struggle for blacks in Memphis.

Bad Girlz
Bad Girlz

Author: Shannon Holmes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1416585591

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The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting this time is the Badlands, one of the toughest and poorest communities in Philadelphia. Bad Girlz takes you into the mysterious and often dangerous lives of young women who turn to the streets and strip clubs as a means of survival. These are girls who, along the way, suffer bad breaks and find themselves ripe for exploitation by men and women who pretend to be their saviors. Tender and Goldie were taken under wing by Kat, a veteran stripper, who enjoyed the life and the risks she had to take to stay in the mix of the sex trade. Both of these young and beautiful girls had ended up in dire straits and in need of Kat's help in different ways, but ultimately for the same reasons: They lacked the love and support that most of us expect to get at home and in our communities. Where they live, illegal money is often the only money to be made, and the difference between the law and the outlaw is tough to discern. Holmes tells a page-turning story of sex, money, and murder in the name of survival and reveals the many ways that good girls, trying to get by in desperate situations, become Bad Girlz.

Trials & Tribalations
Trials & Tribalations

Author: Iowan Tribal

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0615158021

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Floaters: Poems
Floaters: Poems

Author: Martín Espada

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0393541045

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Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love. Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande, and allegations posted in the "I’m 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love—even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. The collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.